Orphans of Rwanda

I didn't until just now learn that one of my favorite charities, "Orphans of Rwanda," was featured in the New York Times on my birthday!
Here is a great write-up of this organization...

Ange Benitha Bamuyugire is not your typical orphan in Rwanda. Orphans in Rwanda are generally living at or beyond the brink of desperate poverty. Ange, however, is a terrific student who’s studying computer science at the country’s finest technical institution, the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology. She’ll be starting an internship soon at a Rwandan company that develops websites. But there’s more to her story.

She survived the 1994 genocide. She saw her father brutally slain by a band of killers wielding machetes. Although she survived with her mother and sister, she lost her entire extended family: grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

In spite of its history and staggeringly high proportion of orphans – approximately 1 out of every 6 children – Rwanda is not exceptional. In fact, sub-Saharan Africa has more orphans than any other region in the world today. The United Nations estimates that of the 43 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, about 14 million are AIDS orphans, a number that is expected to rise to 20 million by 2010.

So the question is: does the world really care enough to help these orphans (or non-orphans, for that matter) beyond the age 18?